![]() Big Sister and Little Sister were passionately anti-communist, whereas Red Sister supported Mao. ![]() This book is also about very different lives, but because of political beliefs not generations. Wild Swans shows how life was different for each of the women – my grandmother, my mother, me. ![]() Your new book explores the dynamic between three women in a family, as did Wild Swans… Her latest, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China, charts the lives of the Soong sisters, who were among the most significant political figures of early 20th-century China. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 15m copies outside mainland China, where they are banned. ![]() She is the author of Wild Swans, Mao: The Unknown Story (with her husband, the historian Jon Halliday) and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. J ung Chang was born in China in 1952 and came to Britain in 1978. ![]()
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